Hundreds of protesters angry at the government’s handling of the Grenfell Tower disaster descended on the offices of Kensington town hall before marching back to the scene.
A second protest began outside the department for communities and local government in Marsham Street. People then marched through central London chanting “justice for Grenfell”.
The Grenfell Tower fire occurred on 14 June 2017 at a 24-storey, 67-metre (220 ft) high tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, west London, England.
Police has confirmed that 58 people who were in the Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire are missing and presumed to be dead. The number may increase according to the police.
Protesters have entered Kensington Town Hall in London, demanding answers from the local council over the Grenfell Tower residential building fire,
The protesters are seeking a list of demands which has been given to the council.
The list includes immediate re-settlement of all the victims of Grenfell Tower fire within the borough, immediate release of funds to cover costs of welfare and all losses suffered by the victims, and launching an investigation into the recent refurbishment project of the tower.
They also ask to release full list of victims of the tragedy, and commission investigation into all other similar buildings in the borough to identify fire.

The death toll from the collapse of scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China rose to 74, state media said. It is the country’s worst work-safety accident in over two years. The incident happened at the Fengcheng plant in Jiangxi province yesterday (24th) at around 7 a.m. local time.
The cooling tower was being built in the city of Fengcheng in Jiangxi province when the scaffolding tumbled down, sending iron pipes, steel bars and wooden planks tumbling down on the workers,
About 500 rescue workers, including paramilitary police officers, dug through the debris with their hands, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
Work on the $1.1 billion coal-powered plant is due to be completed in 2018, according to media reports.

President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has won parliamentary election held in Russia yesterday (18th).

Russia’s ruling United Russia and other parties that back the Kremlin have secured sweeping control over parliament. However, voter turnout plummeted by 20 percent compared to the 2011 election.

With 90 percent of the votes counted, early results suggest that the ruling United Russia party leads in the polls, followed by the Russian Communist Party with 13.5 percent, and the right-wing party LDPR with 13.3 percent. Fair Russia comes fourth with 6.2 percent, the Russian Central Elections Committee said.

“We can say with certainty that the party has achieved a very good result; it’s won,” Putin said at the United Russia headquarters, minutes after polling stations closed on Sunday evening.

The total voter turnout stood at 39.37 percent two hours before the polling stations closed, Russia’s Central Elections Committee said in a press release. At the same time, Moscow and St. Petersburg were among the Russian regions with the lowest turnout, which amounted to almost 20 percent in the Russian capital and 16.12 percent in St. Petersburg.

In Russia, each person over the age of 18 is eligible to vote, except for prisoners and legally incapable persons. The total number of Russian voters amounts to 111.6 million with about two million of them living abroad. Voter turnout in Russia’s previous parliamentary elections in 2011 amounted to 60.2 percent.

Sixty-two Syrian soldiers were killed and over 100 injured in the airstrike by the US-led coalition Syrian government forces’ positions near the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor. The bombing took place on al-Tharda Mountain in the region of Deir ez-Zor and caused casualties and destruction on the ground, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported on Saturday.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the aircraft which carried out the bombings had entered Syrian airspace from the territory of Iraq.

Four strikes against Syrian positions were performed by two F-16 jet fighters and two A-10 support aircraft states Russian Defense Ministry.

The Syrian General Command has called the bombing a “serious and blatant aggression” against Syrian forces, and said it was “conclusive evidence” that the US and its allies support IS militants.

Menwhile, US Department of Defense has admitted that the coalition’s aviation performed combat missions in Deir ez-Zor on Saturday. The US Central Command later has issued a statement, saying that it had no intention of targeting Syrian government forces near Deir ez-Zor.

However, an unnamed US military official has told international media that he was “pretty sure” that the targets hit in US-led coalition air strike on Saturday had been Syrian forces. According to him the bombings in Deir ez-Zor were carried out using US intelligence, which was being gathered for days.

Voting has begun in Russia’s nationwide election day for positions in the federal parliament and dozens of municipal and regional bodies. Spanning 11 time zones, the voting will take about 22 hours with each polling station open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. local time.

This year, 14 political parties are taking part in State Duma elections with some 111.6 million eligible to vote. Voters will choose 450 MPs in the State Duma (lower house), for the next five years.

According to the Russian Central Election Committee (CEC), up to 1,500 journalists, representing 154 media outlets, including 85 foreign, were accredited to work during the Russian parliamentary election.

At least ten deaths and over 1000 patients have been reported in the last two days from India’s capital Delhi due to chickengunya, a viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes.

According reports chikungunya and dengue are taking the toll on Delhi and a few other cities across India, with at least ten deaths due to the vector-borne disease reported in the last two days. While the number of chikungunya cases has risen to over 1,000, dengue cases have shot up to 1,158 in the Indian capital with nearly 390 of them being recorded in the first ten days of September.

According to India’s National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), around 12,255 cases of chikungunya have been reported across the country till 31 August. Karnataka alone has recorded 8,941 cases, Maharashtra 839 and Andhra Pradesh 492.

Meanwhile, a senior health ministry official said at this moment, there is an “outbreak” situation with regard to chikungunya.

Doctors say chikungunya is not a life-threatening disease in general, but in rare cases leads to complications that prove fatal, especially in children and old persons.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he wanted U.S. forces out of his country’s south and blamed America for the restiveness of Muslim militants in the region, marking the first time he publicly opposed the presence of American troops in the country.

Duterte has had an uneasy relationship with the U.S. since becoming president in June and has been openly critical of American security policies. As a candidate, he declared he would chart a foreign policy that would not depend on America, his country’s treaty ally.

At a recent meeting Duterte showed black-and-white pictures of what he described as Muslim Filipinos, including children and women, who were slain by U.S. forces in the early 1900s and dumped in a pit, with American soldiers standing around the mass grave in Bud Daho, a mountainous region in southern Sulu province.

“The special forces, they have to go. They have to go in Mindanao, there are many whites there, they have to go,” he said, adding he was reorienting the country’s foreign policy. “I do not want a rift with America, but they have to go.”

Russia and the US have announced a new ceasefire plan to end the deadly conflict in Syria. After marathon talks in Geneva on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the two sides had developed five documents that would help to reactivate a failed ceasefire in Syria. The agreement will also include a ban on government airstrikes in specific areas and collaboration on strikes against jihadists, according to Lavrov.

The deal was announced by John Kerry, the US secretary of state, and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Friday night after 13 hours of talks in Geneva and a tense wait while Kerry consulted others in his administration with a phone call to Washington.

Both were cautious in describing the deal but said it was a possible “turning point” after more than five years of a brutal war that has killed more than 400,000 people.

The plan would need both the Assad government and opposition “to meet their obligations “John Kerry had said.

The Syrian opposition had indicated it was prepared to comply with the plan, he said, provided the Syrian government “shows it is serious”.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said Russia had informed the Syrian government about the arrangements and the Syrian government was “ready to fulfil them”.

North Korea has stated that it conducted its fifth nuclear warhead explosion test today (9th).

A communique released by the The Nuclear Weapons Institute of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea states, “Scientists and technicians of the DPRK carried out a nuclear explosion test for the judgment of the power of a nuclear warhead newly studied and manufactured by them at the northern nuclear test ground under the plan of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) for building strategic nuclear force.

The Central Committee of the WPK sent warm congratulations to nuclear scientists and technicians of the northern nuclear test ground on the successful nuclear warhead explosion test.

The nuclear test finally examined and confirmed the structure and specific features of movement of nuclear warhead that has been standardized to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets of the Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army as well as its performance and power.

It was confirmed through the results of analysis of the test that the measured values including explosion might and the nuclear material usage coefficient conformed with the calculated values and that there was no radioactive materials leakage during the test and, therefore, no adverse impact on the ecological environment of the surroundings.

The standardization of the nuclear warhead will enable the DPRK to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power with a firm hold on the technology for producing and using various fissile materials. This has definitely put on a higher level the DPRK’s technology of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets.

The nuclear warhead explosion test is a demonstration of the toughest will of the WPK and the Korean people to get themselves always ready to retaliate against the enemies if they make provocation as it is part of practical countermeasures to the racket of threat and sanctions against the DPRK kicked up by the U.S.-led hostile forces who have gone desperate in their moves to find fault with the sovereign state’s exercise of the right to self-defence while categorically denying the DPRK’s strategic position as a full-fledged nuclear weapons state.

The DPRK will take further measures to bolster the state nuclear force in quality and quantity for safeguarding its dignity and right to existence and genuine peace from the U.S. increasing threat of a nuclear war.”